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Jeremiah 25:35

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Jeremiah 25:35 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And refuge shall vanish from the shepherds, and escape from the noble ones of the flock.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Flight will evade the shepherds, and escape will elude the leaders of the flock.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the flight shall faile from the shepherdes, and the escaping from the principall of the flocke.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to save themselves.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And perished hath refuge from the shepherds, And escape from the honourable of the flock.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And refuge has perished from the shepherds, || And escape from the majestic of the flock.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    There is no refuge for the shepherds, there will be no escape for the leaders of the flock.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And refuge shall vanish from the shepherds, and escape from the noble ones of the flock.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And refuge shall perish from the shepherds, and escape from the noble ones of the flock.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The shepherds will have no way to flee. The leader of the flock will have no escape.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The shepherds won't be able to run away; the leaders of the flock won't escape.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    There will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the leaders of the flock to escape.

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מָנ֖וֹס refuge H4498 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מָנ֖וֹס refuge H4498 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וְאָבַ֥ד Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • הָֽרֹעִ֑ים Qal · Participle Active
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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Jeremiah 25:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
  • Amos 2:14 Flight will perish from the swift; And the strong won't strengthen his force; Neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
  • Isaiah 2:12–22 For there will be a day of Yahweh of Hosts for all that is proud and haughty, And for all that is lifted up; And it shall be brought low:
  • Isaiah 24:21–23 It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
  • Jeremiah 32:4 and Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall see his eyes;
  • Jeremiah 34:3 and you shall not escape out of his hand, but shall surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and your eyes shall see the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with you mouth to mouth, and you shall go to Babylon.
  • Jeremiah 38:18 But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.
  • Jeremiah 38:23 They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
  • Jeremiah 48:44 He who flees from the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who gets up out of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for I will bring on him, even on Moab, the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.
  • Jeremiah 52:8–11 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
  • Jeremiah 52:24–27 The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
  • Ezekiel 17:15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape who does such things? shall he break the covenant, and yet escape?
  • Ezekiel 17:18 For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.
  • Daniel 5:30 In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
  • Amos 9:1–3 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.
  • Revelation 6:14–17 The sky was removed like a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
  • Revelation 19:19–21 I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Jeremiah 25:35 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאָבַ֥ד מָנ֖וֹס מִן הָֽרֹעִ֑ים וּפְלֵיטָ֖ה מֵאַדִּירֵ֥י הַצֹּֽאן

The shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Structure differs

In the Septuagint, Jeremiah is about an eighth shorter than the Hebrew and arranges its material differently — the Oracles Against the Nations (Hebrew chapters 46–51) appear in the middle of the Greek book, after 25:13. Because the chapter and verse boundaries do not line up, a verse-for-verse comparison with the Hebrew is not shown.

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Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
    וְיֵבַד בֵּית עֱרוֹקֵי מִן מַלְכַיָא וְשֵׁיזָבָא מִתַּקִיפֵי עַמָא:

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    Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Jeremiah 25:35 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Jer 25:35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

Ver. 35. And the shepherds shall have no way to flee.] Who had formerly divers strongholds. See Amo 2:14.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

It shall not help them to seek to flee.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Literally, "Flight shall fail the shepherds . . . escaping (shall fail) the principal," &c. (Amo 2:14). The leaders will be the first objects for slaughter; escape by flight will be out of their power.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Calvin's Commentaries

He explains what we have now observed, for he had bidden the pastors to howl and the choice of the flock to roll or to prostrate themselves in the dust; he now gives the reason, even because they could not preserve their lives, no, not by an ignominious flight. It is indeed very miserable, when any one cannot otherwise secure his life than by seeking exile, where he must be poor, and needy, and despised; but even this is denied by the Prophet to the king and his counsellors, as well as to the rich through the whole city and the whole land: Perish, he says, shall flight from them. This mode of speaking is common in Hebrew:

“Flight,” says David, “has perished from me,” (Psalm 142:5;)

that is, I find no way of escape. So here, Perish shall flight; that is, while looking here and there in order to escape from danger, they shall be so shut up on every side, that they shall necessarily fall a prey to their enemies. It follows, —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

35. And the shepherds, etc.] For the idiom in mg. flight shall perish from the shepherds, and escape from, etc., cp. Job_11:20 mg.; Psa_142:4 (Hebrews 5); Amo_2:14.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And a voice of the cry of the shepherds,.... Or of the kings, as the Targum:

and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard; of the mighty of the people, as the same; what is before called for is here represented as in fact, because of the certainty of it:

for the Lord hath spoiled their pastures: their kingdoms, provinces, cities, and towns; or their people, as the Targum, among whom they lived, and by whom they were supported; still keeping up the metaphor of the shepherd and flock. This the Lord is said to do because he suffered it to be done, yea, ordered it to be done, as a punishment for their sins.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

In ordinary dispensations of judgment, there is some way left to escape, and if there be any way of escape, great men are likeliest to find it; but he telleth them that the greatest men should find no way to flee from or escape this terrible dispensation of God.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

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Jeremiah, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mânôwç (“refuge”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “refuge” (mânôwç) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. 2 Samuel 22:3 shares the word «refuge» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. The verb «וְאָבַ֥ד» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
  5. Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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